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That's not true, it takes some education to hunt submarines, it's not the same as flying a crop duster.
Both aim to eliminate a pest, but the crop duster is fighting the lesser of the two weevils.
Ok tough guy, how many star systems are you wanted in?Even better is the ramp for of charter birds at a ramp near an auto plant short of parts at 3 am. Made the Star Wars bar scene look like an Iowa Rotary club meeting (YIP's seen this)
I think you have pretty well summed it up. However Wavy here says his training in a Cessna at 150 hours was so much better than mine in preparing him for professional flying career. This is all I was doing at 150 hours.Once again, do these traits and accomplishments make better airline pilots in comparison to someone who came up through the civilian ranks? Not really, in my opinion, especially considering the type of flying the major airlines do. The big difference is the known versus the unknown factor, as some of the people here have mentioned. It seems to always comes down to money as corporations are looking for the best bang for the buck.
As for you dorks on here who like to bash on the military pilots, you spew with jealousy and inferiority complex. It's pretty funny how you know everything there is to know about military pilots without having experienced any sort of formal military flight training. I'm guessing that you either washed out, just couldn't make the initial cut for whatever reason, or you are just plain ignorant. Someone here mentioned about flying approaches in a single/twin prop job is so much more difficult than in a jet? Seriously? Do you think that military pilots are just day VMC pilots? A civilian pilot's training consists of PPL, instrument rating, commercial rating, CFI&CFII (so if you choose), and an ATP at 1,500 hours. In the world of military flying, these ratings are considered "Flying Basics 101", required to safely operate an aircraft from point A to point B. I'm not saying this to denigrate civilian flight training; just stating facts.
Haven't we been here before? Yep in college I never worked as hard you, never socialized as well as, never played IM sports as good as you could of, nope none of the benefits you found in college ever flowed to me. Why I was such a looser at graduation I had to go into Navy Flight Training and fly in Vietnam just to get a job. Yea with your hard work you never had to dela with elements of luck and timing. Nope not wavy, in charge of his career from day one.
But I guess all the hard work I did doesn't count. I mean I only graduated first in my class from Primary Flight, made the Captain's list for academic achievement in ground school. Graduated #2 in my class from basic (FCLPS' ate my lunch at first). Graduated first in my class from advanced training, got my first choice of aircraft assignment, the P-3 (for that I was lucky if there had not been any P-3 slots that month I would have been unlucky). I wrote the highest final exam score in the History of the Navy Navigation school, was named VT-29 Student of the Quarter. I was one of two first tour PPC?s to be given my own crew and Aircraft. Graduated first in my class from Officer of Deck Underway School, I passed my reactor Orals on the first try. Qualified OOD (U) in six months, most other candidates took 18-24 months. But I guess I didn?t work very hard and that is why I was not lucky.
Wavy this guy gets it.